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The religious history of American women : reimagining the past / edited by Catherine A. Brekus.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and religion--United States--History.
- Women and religion.
- United States--Religion.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
- Summary:
- More than a generation after the rise of women's history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion. Mary Dyer, a Quaker who was hanged for heresy; Lizzie Robinson, a former slave and laundress who sold Bibles door to door; Sally Priesand, a Reform rabbi; Estela Ruiz, who saw a vision of the Virgin Mary--how do these women's stories change our understanding of American religious history and American women's history?In this provocative collection of twelve essays, contributors explore how consideri
- Contents:
- Puritan women, spiritual power, and the question of sexuality / Marilyn J. Westerkamp - Revelation, witchcraft, and the danger of knowing God's secrets / Elizabeth Reis - Hail Mary down by the riverside: black and white Catholic women in early America / Emily Clark - Sarah Osborn's enlightenment: reimagining Eighteenth-Century intellectual history / Catherine A. Brekus - Beyond the meetinghouse: women and Protestant spirituality in early America / Janet Moore Lindman - Unrespectable saints: women of the church of God in Christ / Anthea D. Butler - Women's popular literature as theological discourse: a Mormon case study, 1880-1920 / Susanna Morrill - The "new woman" at the "university": gender and American Catholic identity in the Progressive Era / Kathleen Sprows Cummings - Faith, Feminism and history / Ann Braude - "Are you the white sisters or the black sisters?": women confounding categories of race and gender / Amy Koehlinger - Engendering dissent: women and American Judaism / Pamela S. Nadell - Little slices of Heaven and Mary's candy kisses: Mexican American women redefining Feminism and Catholicism / Kristy Nabhan-Warren.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908819-3-9
- 979-88-9313-280-9
- 1-4696-0517-1
- 0-8078-6799-3
- OCLC:
- 648596510
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